Word: fleetly
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...bombers, which will be virtually invisible to radar and therefore less vulnerable to antiaircraft defenses than present-day aircraft. No technological edge is guaranteed to be permanent, but the U.S. has geographical advantages over the Soviet Union as well: far easier access to the open seas for its submarine fleet and to allies around the periphery of the U.S.S.R. whose land and territorial waters offer forward bases for American weapons, particularly cruise missiles. Thus American assets counterbalance Soviet ones in a system that Henry Kissinger has described as one of "offsetting asymmetries." That makes for an overall strategic balance...
...from moors to Fleet Street the search...
During the Soviet offensive last April, the Afghan rebels combined strategy and weaponry to bloody effect. In one operation, 800 mujahedin, coordinating their attacks by radio, ambushed a fleet of Soviet vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day, little remained of the Soviet procession save smoke, smashed and smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front...
...awhile, at least, his baseball career is over. Weller starts his job June 25 at Providence's Fleet National Bank. "I'm probably done, retired, over the hill," he joked. Harvard baseball "is something I'm definitely going to miss," he adds. "Every game...
...Club via Milton Academy, and since graduating with a degree in economics, has gone on to make money in a variety of ways. He is president of West India Shipping Co., a New York-based firm, and has headed States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships. He also serves on the boards of Corning Glass Works, Chase International Investment and several other companies...